Unity Requires Wisdom

It takes wisdom to maintain unity in the body of Christ. Especially when we're talking about unity within a particular parish. The first letter to the Corinthians shows how Paul exercises wisdom as he begins to address the fractures within the congregation he had established in Corinth, but then it also seems to reveal his struggle to deal with the influence of another person on the congregation, another missionary named Apollos. Rev Derwyn suggests that 1 Corinthians reveals the humanness of Paul as he tries to encourage the Corinthian church while dealing with his own reservations towards and perhaps even jealousy of this other missionary...